Excerpt from The Aphorisms of Hippocrates: From the Latin Version of Verhoofd, With a Literal Translation on the Opposite Page and Explanatory Notes
The Leyden edition of Johannes Heur nius, * possesses, perhaps, the most close and literal translation of any I have yet seen, and is in its style, so analagous to that of Verhoofd, that the reader, by comparing them, will be irresistibly led to the inference, that the latter is no more than a revision of the former. But what the various commen tators have differed most upon, is the genuineness of some portions of this work. While some condemn the seventh and eighth sections as altogether spurious, and as differing in style from the terse, Ionic dialect of the original; others view them as genuine in the main, but as containing many interpolations and alterations. Among these, Villebrune has given, as genuine, six sections, and the greatest part of the seventh (down to Aphor. Observing at the conclusion.
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